June 03, 2024
Charlie Brooker told The Hollywood Reporter that he wrote the Season 6, Episode 1 Joan is Awful before ChatGPT was launched.
The pilot episode of the latest season follows the story of a businesswoman Joan who one day sees that there is an entire show based on her life and her activities are being played out by Salma Hayek’s AI version.
“A couple of times on the show, there’s been something I’ve written and then something similar happens in the real world, similar-ish. Narcissistically, you start to feel like, ‘This is too big of a coincidence. I feel like I’m living in a simulation,’” he said.